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How Arafat Got Away With It
LA Times, also posted at Council on Foreign Relations Site ^
| 11 Nov 04
| Max Boot
Posted on 11/13/2004 8:15:23 AM PST by wita
It is considered bad form to speak ill of the dead, but I will make an exception for Yassar Arafat, the pathetic embodiment of all that went wrong in the Third World after the demise of the European empires.
(Excerpt) Read more at cfr.org ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arafat; cluelessinramala
This article is on the editorial page of the Rapid City Journal Today. Ought to be on the front page of every newspaper in every hick town in the world.
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posted on
11/13/2004 8:15:23 AM PST
by
wita
To: wita
The truth about Yassar, but then who is really interested in the truth?
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posted on
11/13/2004 8:16:55 AM PST
by
wita
To: wita
Dems wanna recount..They say he aint really dead
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posted on
11/13/2004 8:17:00 AM PST
by
skaterboy
To: skaterboy
Not only dead but buried, do we need to exhume for proof?
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posted on
11/13/2004 8:19:06 AM PST
by
wita
To: skaterboy
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posted on
11/13/2004 8:21:22 AM PST
by
Mike Bates
(Just in time for your Thanksgiving gift giving needs: THE book.)
To: wita
Define "getting away with it".
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posted on
11/13/2004 8:22:14 AM PST
by
RichInOC
(SHAITAN: HOW ARE YOU YASSER!! ALL YOUR SOUL ARE BELONG TO US. HA HA HA HA....)
To: RichInOC
Hey, I only posted the article, I didn't write it. Hit the link and read, it's a good one.
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posted on
11/13/2004 8:23:30 AM PST
by
wita
To: wita
It's true. He was not a nice person, to say the least. He had one objective in life, several actually, but the primary one was to kill Jews and put Israel out of business. He was also dedicated to never letting peace occur between Israel and Palestine because that would have been his end, both politically and economically (from the loads of monies flowing to him from Arab dictators).
It was sad to watch the free world, especially the U.S. and Israeli leaders, MAKE COMPLETE FOOLS OF THEMSELVES TIME AFTER TIME...DECADE AFTER DECADE... pandering to this murderous terrorist, give him money which he readily took, each thinking they were going to go down in history as the leader that made peace between Arafat and Israel.
A true embodiment of the LIVING LIE as long as Arafat was alive....as history now notes it.
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posted on
11/13/2004 8:25:31 AM PST
by
EagleUSA
To: wita
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posted on
11/13/2004 8:26:47 AM PST
by
durasell
(Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
To: wita
Somewhere in the 8th circle of Hell we find wonderful Arafat scorched in the raging fires and getting his eyes poked out each day for all eternity...
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posted on
11/13/2004 8:30:42 AM PST
by
Time is now
(We'll live to see it......or something like it....)
To: EagleUSA
Sad but true, and to see the western world contribute to his financial well being, and that of his organization is nothing less than fueling the flames that will eventually consume us if we don't get a handle on the financials. The axiom "Follow the money" is more than just a statement, and I would add, go after the money is even more important as a means of shutting these terrorist down, and once the money is gone kill what's left over.
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posted on
11/13/2004 8:32:23 AM PST
by
wita
To: wita
The European nations still haven't gotten over the fact that they are irrelevant. It appears somewhat incredulous that they so unabashedly support a guy (Arafat) whose basic goal in life was to wipe out the nation of Israel, something Hitler did not succeed in.
These irrelevant European countries, in their search for relevancy, now support the radical Islamic agenda and can't bring themselves to calling Arafat what he is, a homicidal thug, who sent his followers on suicide missions that he himself never went on, and embezzled probably billions of dollars from his people.
Perhaps in his eulogy, some member of the mainstream media will go to the Gaza Strip or West Bank and show us all the schools, hospitals, clinics, and and other things that Arafat built to make his people's lives better. It should only take about 10 seconds, because he didn't do a darn thing for them. And now his wife gets 22 million a year from the Palestinian Authority, so she can live in Paris. How about paying her 22 million is she promises to live with her "people" in the Gaza Strip, but I guess if they saw how well she lived they might think less about blowing up a bus full of Israelis and more about why the Palestinian Authority isn't doing anything for them.
And maybe Al Jazeera should show all the secret video tape that the Ceausescu regime reportedly secretly taped of Arafat and his bodyguards engaging in acts that would make Mohammed roll over in his grave.
To: skaterboy
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posted on
11/13/2004 8:34:42 AM PST
by
vanburen
To: wita
bump for the truth that we already know.
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posted on
11/13/2004 8:34:58 AM PST
by
wita
To: wita
Once more for the fun of it. Did he really get away with it. NOT!
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posted on
11/13/2004 8:36:40 AM PST
by
wita
To: wita
Does it have anything to do with a willing and compliant international media?
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posted on
11/13/2004 8:49:40 AM PST
by
Buckeye Battle Cry
(The Measure of a Man is the Willingness to Accept Responsibility for Consequences of his Acts.)
To: RichInOC
One thing Arafat is getting away with in the arab world is
the fact that he was a major fag and died of aids.
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posted on
11/13/2004 9:42:25 AM PST
by
rodguy911
( President Reagan---all the rest.)
To: wita
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posted on
11/13/2004 3:07:03 PM PST
by
happygrl
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